SOUL BLEEDS The Poetry, Melodies, and Other Wanderings of Karen Wiesner

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Formerly titled SOUL BLEEDS The Dark Poetry and Other Wanderings of K.S. Wiesner

A 2002 EPIC Award finalist

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It comes in many different forms. It's been around since the
beginning of time, and it evolves with each new generation. It can be said as unequivocal fact that
there's no longer a right or wrong way to do it. The only thing that has never changed is that every
poem ever written shows us the eyes of the poet.

Looking without.

As love mirrors the heart, poetry mirrors personality. Many poets choose to write
about things outside of themselves-nature, God, events. This mirrors their personal character and
the way they look at the world.

Looking within.

Other poets take the outside world into themselves and use the intimate emotions to
reveal their own hearts.

Just looking.

Then there are poets like me, who do a little of both...or a lot of neither.

If you're looking for flowery observations on nature, rhyming pieces with any type
of standard or pattern, seemingly meaningless verses that you have to know the "code" to understand,
you won't find it here. The 39 poems you're about to read are eclectic, to say the least. They're a
combination of honesty, raw emotion, vivid imagery, gritty reality, story metaphors, introspection,
depression, and even "song-like" verses. My idea of great poetry is something that I can relate to,
something that moves me, something that takes the human condition and makes it both frail and
somehow beautiful in its starkness. It's my hope that you feel these same things as you read my
heart through various phases of my life.

"Free verse as rhythmic as the sea, SOUL BLEEDS
sings a lyric song of love in its many permutations. The jeweled words flow from the poet's heart,
but the distilled truths were wrest from the fabric of her soul."

~Award-winning author Patricia Lucas White

"Karen Wiesner's words follow a willow-wispy me-girl through every twist and turn
of romantic love from Sometimes I Don’t Love You to Love You, an unconditional love. Karen's wispy
girl has grown into a willow-woman bending toward God and a love she can't lose in And It Isn’t That. Saved to the last, Touch, probes a woman's heart, bound in the pain and gain of the gift of
love for child, husband, God, self. Karen makes me catch my breath, remembering."

~Rose Hampton Newton, author of Rumination Road

"Karen Wiesner's poetry is her own. Though some of her poems, like Touch, are dark,
most of her poems do not fit the mold of dark poetry--or any mold for that matter. Her poetry coins
its own term: "High Drama." Wiesner's poetry is broken hearts, it's love, it's redemption and
fear; it's loneliness. Her poetry is honest to her heart. Steal Away and Your Father’s Love are my
favorites in the collection."

~Valerie Hardin, acclaimed Gothic poet; EPPIE finalist for her Gothic poetry collection in
2000 and for her children's e-books in 2000 and 2001

"Love is a Choice: This poem title is an excellent description of how someone will react to it. You
either choose to love it or leave it. It is a book filled with the painful realities of life and
those who prefer rose-colored glasses may find it hard to read. In Part III: The Many Faces of Fear...the author has found more than fear.
She has found her ability to make us feel. The many faces of fear are also the many faces of pain
and this section of Wiesner's book is the most compelling. R.I.P. {Repose Inside of Pain} An interesting title suggesting where this poem
will lead. But, as you read the poem, you find that there is no repose. While "Touch" is the last
poem in this collection of love, faith and fear, for me, it was the best. It leaves you with an
aching heart. It takes you down a maze where you feel the sorrow of another's pain. It reminds you
that life makes no promises."

~reviewed by Belinda Anne Landtroop

Award-winning author Karen Wiesner has been writing poetry since she was a teenager and had several poems published in various
anthologies before the age of 16. Hesitant to call herself a poet, she prefers to describe her
poems as "writing in flow--kind of like a street version of classical poetry. If you like reading
song lyrics, you'll love my "poems”."